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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

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Is there any feedback in any of these to the PCP? In addition to the grab bars, we have also helped train the EMS professionals in different lenses about screening. Get them back in the PCP office. When’s the last time you saw your PCP? Do you even have a PCP?” Katie: I was going to jump in.

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How to discuss stopping screening: Mara Schonberg

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I talk to women 75 and older or something like it’s my job as your PCP to recommend tests that I think will lead to more good than to harm. And so we recruited 546 women and they were from 137 different PCPs. And so then they saw their PCP. We did email PCPs that they would be coming in early for the study.

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Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

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So the patient gets gabapentin prescribed from their surgeon, they see their PCP, they have a list of medications, and they all get renewed, get represcribed. Tasce: Lots of reasons. I think a lot of reasons that we all talk about in the deprescribing space.

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Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster

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And, you know, this is back and forth between the PCP and the cardiologist. The post Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng

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But if I were in the PCP setting or clinic, again, I would definitely use it. The post Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. And as you know, the population we serve here often do not identify as asian.